Bachoco

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

Animal welfare
The company discloses evidence of processes of animal welfare third-party certifications or third-party audits.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Food safety
The company demonstrates that all of its own operations are certified to a food safety scheme recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). Additionally, it discloses that 63% of its food suppliers are certified under a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a public policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also provides an email id, a hotline number, and a website for reporting grievances, including bribery and corruption concerns and complaints without fear of reprisals.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. Furthermore, it provides an email id, a hotline number and a website for reporting grievances related to human rights issues. Also, on visiting the website, it is clear that the channel is open for anyone to make a report, and there is a choice for the complainant to either remain anonymous or identify themselves.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company states that it has a sustainability committee. However, it has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by designating an individual or body to implement its sustainability strategy and by assigning decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to targets and objectives, which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Additionally, it could disclose whether the highest governance body has expertise in its most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process, how regularly the assessment is undertaken, and the outcome of the process. Furthermore, it could disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in scope 1 and 2 and scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to disclose animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies, and products.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. The company could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to set a sales-based target to increase alternative proteins across its portfolio, as well as to report on progress against this target.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Workforce nutrition
While the company has health and wellbeing promotion programs for its employees it has an opportunity to enhance the program by incorporating nutrition-focused health checks or nutrition education. It could also disclose the length covered by its parental leave policy, as well as any other breastfeeding supports such as dedicated breastfeeding rooms or flexible working hours for breastfeeding mothers. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to implement a programme to offer healthy food options to its employees.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and to require an age-verification system in its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents, or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and to describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company could outline its method for identifying bribery and corruption risks and their impacts within specific locations or activities encompassing its operations. There is also an opportunity for the company to enhance its ethical framework by incorporating anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses into contracts with its business relationships. Furthermore, the company could formalise its approach to lobbying and political engagement through a dedicated policy.

While the company mentions refraining from making political contributions, it could further strengthen this commitment by presenting it within a public policy document. Additionally, disclosing the expenditures related to lobbying activities would enhance transparency. Lastly, the company could communicate its expectation that third-party lobbyists adhere to its established lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company emphasises worker health and safety, using more resolute language and formalising this commitment in a public policy document would reinforce its dedication. It has the opportunity to reveal a supplier policy expecting commitment to worker well-being. Additionally, sharing how it monitors supplier health and safety performance would enhance transparency.

While fair wages are acknowledged, committing to a living wage with a time-bound target would strengthen the company’s stance. Disclosing the methodology for determining regional living wages and supporting suppliers in this regard could provide clarity.

The company could also openly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment, accompanied by time-bound goals. Moreover, it could strive for at least 30% female representation on its highest governing body. Lastly, it could disclose the gender-based salary ratio in its total direct workforce.

Respect human rights
The company’s existing policy statement commits to specific workers’ rights, but it could further enhance its stance by explicitly referencing all ILO fundamental rights at work. Moreover, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to uphold the human rights declared by the ILO as fundamental rights at work.

The company has the opportunity to outline its approach for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering both its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could elaborate on its methodology for identifying significant human rights concerns and could share the outcomes of its human rights risk assessment. Furthermore, there is room for the company to disclose a comprehensive global framework designed to address, prevent, or mitigate its identified significant human rights issues.